When Zindagi Trust took over the management of the SMB Fatima Jinnah Government Girls School campus, there were eight schools functional within a single campus: five primary schools (class one to five) and three secondary schools (class six to 10) in the same school premises, each with its own set of teachers and administrators who could not be shared. This phenomenon is not uncommon in Karachi where there are 3,625 government schools but only 900 campuses. Zindagi Trust merged the eight schools into one at SMB School and, more significantly, also lobbied successfully for policy reform to prevent this administrative nightmare from continuing other schools: in July 2011, the Sindh Education Secretary issued a notification approving the School Consolidation Policy that aims to merge adjoining and nearby schools in one campus under one administration.